Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude

By William Brown

Book Overview

Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema, ' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins, in the extreme, the overlooked and the under-funded - the sort that distributors, exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all, hence "non-cinema."

Analysing numerous films, William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world, but entangled participants therewith. Non-Cinema constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom, as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501327291
• ISBN13: 9781501327292
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"